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i understand why the ‘grizzled loner who slowly melts & improves their outlook on life when forced to take care of a kid’ trope is a male exclusive role, bc the optics of a grizzled loner woman healing by becoming a mother are maybe not so good, but every time i think abt a hypothetical female version of that trope i black out instantly. could we maybe just do it one time and all agree to be cool about it

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Diversity win! Ancestral curse recognises non-biological parenthood!

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Get these ai writing assistants out of my face!!!! I don't care if my writing is bad at least it is mine!!!!

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I have devastating news to offer you, sir; border collies can, will, and frequently do act like Sad Archer the Husky. So do bullies. But at it's possible to pick them up like belligerent suitcases and wear enough layers to avoid their infuriated claw slashings until cooperation has been forced.

I love huskies. I'd never get one.

but I love them.

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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When you can't remember what your villain looks like so you go "you're blonde now"

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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"Dear earthlings, prepare to be my slave!" Announced the alien. "You will have to work 3 entire days from Monday to Wednesday, you will only get A5 wagyu steak for meals, and if that isn't cruel enough you'll have to work 2 entire torturing hours of picking strawberries every single work day!"

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more vampires with multigenerational adopted human offspring. they wake up, get the tykes ready for pre-school, beg their preteen not to get caught on their phone in class again (caught being the emphasis, they're a realist), venmo their college kid for "textbook money" (as if they don't teach all their kids how to pirate that shit), have a lunch meeting with their 49-year-old-realtor-kid to discuss the possibility of quietly buying another local warehouse that would absolutely not be used for tax evasion/illegal artifact storage purposes, then spend the afternoon in a bloodthirsty mahjong battle at their eldest kid's (82) snazzy new retirement community

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In a deal with a fae, you must give up something you hold dear. Whether it be your name, your first born, or something else, it must be held dear. You, gave up your addiction. It worked.

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Last Line Tag

Thanks for the tag @inkjackets! As seems my brand, I haven’t written lately so much as jotted down cheap two line poetry, so have that instead :v 

You’d think the key to flight would be uplifting, the belief you can touch the highest stars. It’s not. It’s a spiteful refusal to hit the earth; that’s the difference between crashing and climbing. 

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Only the dog knows whether he will bite.  But he always says no.

Tagging -> @kainablue, @paper-shield-and-wooden-sword, @thecadmiuminkwell, and @pied-piper-of-hamlet

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There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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"The problem is people don't read classics anymore"

No I think the problem is people don't read WIDELY. The ONLY ya and/or fantasy romance crowd is just as insufferable as the ONLY classics crowd or the ONLY litfic crowd or the ONLY nonfiction crowd and vice versa.

You gotta get some variety in there my guys

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writing is 10% storytelling and 90% rearranging three sentences for an hour like you're trying to solve an ancient curse

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It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

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"If my book is not perfect then-"

Then what? People will actually discuss it? fill your plotholes with fanfiction and headcanons?

People dont care about perfection. perfection is boring. if your story is perfect people will forget about it. its how we are wired. we remember the strange, the weird and all things left open.

Perfection isnt the goal, interesting is